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Published September 06, 2012, 12:24 PM

Report: US health care system wastes $750 billion a year

The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year — roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar — through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste, the influential Institute of Medicine said Thursday in a report that ties directly into the presidential campaign.

By: Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

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